Biography

Ismet Prcic

Ismet Prcic is a Bosnian American writer currently residing in Portland, Oregon. He used to be just Bosnian, but then he learned some English and they gave him a piece of paper that said he was now American.

Ismet is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for fiction in 2010. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Bat City Review, Wazee Literary Journal, Prague Literary Review and IdentityTheory.com. Ismet is currently finishing work on his first novel entitled SHARDS, which will be published by Grove, Atlantic early in 2011.

In addition to his fiction writing, Ismet is a long-time writer of dramatic works as well as having worked extensively as an actor and director both in the U.S. and abroad.